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Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid

From Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid
Date 2015-09-18 15:40 +0200
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On 09/18, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 08:09:19PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > I need to recheck, but afaics this is not possible. This optimization
> > is fine, but probably needs a comment.
>
> For sure, this code doesn't make any sense to me.

So yes, after a sleep I am starting to agree that in theory this fast-path
check is wrong. I'll write another email..

> As an alternative patch, could we not do:
>
>   void put_pid(struct pid *pid)
>   {
> 	struct pid_namespace *ns;
>
> 	if (!pid)
> 		return;
>
> 	ns = pid->numbers[pid->level].ns;
> 	if ((atomic_read(&pid->count) == 1) ||
> 	     atomic_dec_and_test(&pid->count)) {
>
> +		smp_read_barrier_depends(); /* ctrl-dep */

Not sure... Firstly it is not clear what this barrier pairs with. And I
have to admit that I can not understand if _CTRL() logic applies here.
The same for atomic_read_ctrl().

OK, please forget about put_pid() for the moment. Suppose we have

	X = 1;
	synchronize_sched();
	Y = 1;

Or
	X = 1;
	call_rcu_sched( func => { Y = 1; } );



Now. In theory this this code is wrong:

	if (Y) {
		BUG_ON(X == 0);
	}

But this is correct:

	if (Y) {
		rcu_read_lock_sched();
		rcu_read_unlock_sched();
		BUG_ON(X == 0);
	}

So perhaps something like this

	/*
	 * Comment to explain it is eq to read_lock + read_unlock,
	 * in a sense that this guarantees a full barrier wrt to
	 * the previous synchronize_sched().
	 */
	#define rcu_read_barrier_sched()	barrier()

make sense?


And again, I simply can't understand if this code

	if (READ_ONCE_CTRL(Y))
		BUG_ON(X == 0);

to me it does _not_ look correct in theory.
		
Oleg.

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[PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2015-09-17 15:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2015-09-17 18:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2015-09-17 18:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2015-09-17 19:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2015-09-17 20:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2015-09-17 20:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2015-09-17 20:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2015-09-17 20:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 11:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 11:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 11:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> - 2015-09-18 14:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 14:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-18 18:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2015-09-18 11:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2015-09-18 11:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 11:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 13:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2015-09-18 13:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2015-09-18 14:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 14:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 14:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2015-09-18 14:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 15:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2015-09-18 15:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 16:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2015-09-18 16:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2015-09-18 16:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2015-09-22 10:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 18:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 18:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-18 18:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2015-09-18 15:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2015-09-18 15:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 16:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2015-09-18 17:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2015-09-18 17:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-18 18:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-17 20:00 +0200

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